I overheard two mothers talk about the difficulties of teaching math to their children. They mentioned that fractions are especially hard.

That reminded me of play dough. My children loved playing with the stuff. I gave them little rolling pins and cookie cutters, and they could stay busy for hours.

Keeping play dough in your school drawer so you can quickly roll out a “pizza” and cut it into fractions is a GREAT way to help your children understand the fractions on their math worksheets.

Here is a video with some of my ideas…

Our Foundations of Arithmetic curriculum includes daily “Together Math Drills” for parents to do WITH their children. If you can carve out 10-15 minutes to enjoy these fun games and discussions with your kids, you’ll see a huge improvement in no time.

This is the perfect time for using the play dough! Here are ideas for more math manipulatives we enjoy at our home.

Let’s make math EASY and those math facts AUTOMATIC! 🙂